Easter is the perfect time for a spring refresh - and for eating some chocolate. This week I was caught red-handed, with 20 ...

Nowadays, children all over Ireland are delighted if they get more than one hollow chocolate Easter egg – but the first one ...

In the Orthodox tradition, eggs are painted red to symbolize the blood ... States and the fabled rabbit’s Easter morning deliveries expanded to include chocolate and other types of candy and ...

The chocolate Easter egg, however ... using madder roots or beetroots. The red eggs are thought to symbolise the blood of Christ. One 17th-Century author suggested this practice went as far ...

Before we had chocolate Easter eggs we simply exchanged normal chicken ... something we still do today - and particularly with red paint to symbolise the blood of Christ. The first recorded ...